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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WATSON HOLMES, OF HOOSIOK FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO PLANTERS COMPRESS COMPANY OF MAINE, A CORPO- RATION OFMAINE.

COMBINED BALE AND TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,802, dated December16, 1902. Application filed October 10, 1899. Serial No. 733,200. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WATSON M. HOLMES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hoosick Falls, in the county of Rensselaer and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Bale-Tie, of which the followingisa specification.

This invention relates to bale-ties.

The object of the invention is to provide IO means for preventing theendwise expansion of bales of fibrous or other material which aresimple, economical, and efficient.

The invention consists, substantially, in the construction, combination,and arrangement,

I 5 all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, as shown in theaccompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims,

Referring to the accompanying drawings and to the various views andreference-signs 2o appearing thereon, Figure 1 is an end view of a baleof fibrous material, showing the application thereto of a bale-tieconstructed in accordancej'with the principles of my inven tion. Fig. 2is a longitudinal central section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.Fig. 3

is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modified construction embracedwithin the scope of my invention. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 onthe line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of a modified formof holder or tie plate. Fig. 6 is a section of the same on the line 6 6of Fig. 5.

In the pending application for patent of George A. Lowry for a halo offibrous material,

Serial No. 621,203, filed January 29, 1897, is shown, described, andclaimed a bale of fibrous material built up endwise by superposedcontinuous spiral layers or convolutions highly compressed and flattenedand resting one upon the other, and in Patents Nos. 581,600, 581,601,and 630,369, issued to George A. Lowry, are shown, described, andclaimed various constructions of presses for producing such bale.

It has been found that a bale constructed and produced in accordancewith the patents above referred to possesses comparatively littletendency to expandradially; but the tendency to expand longitudinally orendwise is very great, and it is the purpose of the present invention toprovide a bale stay or tie which is of simple, economical, and efficientconstruction, whereby the bale is held against and prevented fromendwise expansion.

In carrying out the principles of my invention I employ clamping orholding plates arranged to be applied to the ends of the bale andsuitably secured or tied together. These clamping or holding plates orties may be in the form of spiders A A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and inFigs. 3 and 4:, or they may be of any other suitable form-as, forinstance, in the form of disks, as shown at B, Figs. 5 and 6. ThereforeI desire to include by the term holder or clamping plate any form ofsecuring device adapted for my purpose, Whether in the form of a spider,disk, or any other suitable or convenient form. The holder-plate orclamp may be made of any suitablen1aterialsuch,forinstance,aspressedsteelor may be cast or otherwisesuitably formed and, if desired, may be corrugated, as indicated indotted lines at D,or ribbed, as shown at E, in order to secure thedesired strength and rigidity.

In the use of bale-ties embodying the principles of my invention aholder or clamping plate is applied to each end of the bale O to betied, and then the two plates are suitably secured together. Forinstance, and in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I may provide twoopenings or holes a 0 adjacent to the center of the holder or clampingplates and in alinement with the central longitudinal hole or opening Fthrough the bale. A securing or tie wire G may then be passed throughsaid holes or openings at and through the 1ongitudinal central hole oropening through the bale and the ends thereof finally twisted orotherwise secured together, as indicated at b, 0 Fig. 2, thus tying orholding the plates together, and hence clamping the bale endwisetherebetween. It is obvious, however, that the holder or clamping platesmay be tied or secured together in many other specifically differentways. For instance, and by way of illustration, I have shown in Figs. 3and 4 a construction wherein the clamp or holder plates are heldtogether so as to hold the bale endwise therebetween by means of a rodc,

suitably headed at one end and having a nut d, tapped on the other endthereof.

By constructions such as above set forth bales of fibrous or othermaterial constructed in the manner set forth, described, and claimed inthe application for patent and in the patents above referred to may bequickly clamped and tied endwise to prevent endwise expansion thereofand in a most simple, efficient, and economical manner.

Having now set forth the object and nature of my invention and forms ofconstruction embodying the principles thereof, what I claim as new anduseful and of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is

1. The combination with a bale of fibrous or other material capable ofendwise expansion and having a central longitudinal orifice oropeningtherethrough,ofsheet-metalspider or holder-plates adapted to be appliedto the ends of the bale to secure the same against endwise expansion,and securing devices arranged to pass through the longitudinal cen-,tral orifice or opening in said bale and connecting said platestogether, whereby said bale is held against endwise expansion, as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a bale of fibrous or other material underendwise compression having a central longitudinal opening, ofholder-plates adapted to be applied to the ends of said bale to securethe same against endwise expansion, said holder-plates provided withopenings adjacent to the center thereof, and securing devices for saidplates arranged to pass through said openings and through thelongitudinal central opening in the bale, as and for the purpose setforth.

3. The combination with a bale of fibrous or other material capable ofendwise expansion and provided with a longitudinal central opening,spiders or holder-plates adapted to be applied to the ends of said baleto hold the same against endwise expansion, and means connecting saidholder-plates to prevent separation thereof under the influence of theendwise expansion of the bale, said means passing through thelongitudinal central opening through said bale, as and for the purposeset forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 4th day of October,1899, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

WATSON M. HOLMES.

Witnesses:

DANIEL W. HoWLAND, WM. M. RHEEM.

